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Recent documents in School of Arts and Social Sciencesen-usTue, 31 Mar 2015 01:36:12 PDT3600Innovative networks in Vanuatu: tourism and cultural industrieshttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1402
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1402Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:03:24 PDT
This paper examines Fest’Napuan, Vanuatu’s annual culture and music festival, to understand the festival’s contribution to the cultural development of Vanuatu. Since 1996 Fest’Napuan has provided a forum that supports the performance of contemporary and traditional music and dance. The festival and its organising association have spearheaded projects and innovative partnerships that have led to the advantageous export of ni-Vanuatu music and cultural performance. Tourism firms operating in the region are developing innovative relationships with Fest’Napuan, with both the organisers, and with the individual performers directly. These networks are clusters of intense cultural negotiation as external forces interact with traditional norms thus fomenting tensions around authenticity, sensitivity, Indigeneity, and artistic value. In this paper we argue that musical production in Vanuatu should be viewed as a ‘natural competitive advantage’ for both the cultural performers and tourism operators. However, in order to exploit this natural advantage, diverse and selected actors need to deploy particular combinations of relational and social resources to achieve collective gain. Innovative, strategic collaborations are contended to increase awareness of these regions and promote their cultural diversity at the same time as developing a tourism brand.
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Thomas Dick et al.Live A/V in Australia - sample interviewhttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1401
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1401Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:41:54 PDT
Live AV in Australia by Grayson Cooke documents the diverse emerging national community of practice involved in live audiovisual performance. In a series of video interviews with practitioners around the country a picture emerges of a vibrant performance scene that draws on the aesthetic traditions of music, cinema and new media art.
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Grayson CookeBrainal pipes confusion cavehttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1400
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1400Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:14:45 PDT
Collaborative artists Wilkins Hill (Wendy Wilkins and Wes Hill) have been working together since 2000, pursuing a shared interest in the phenomenological aspects of communicating meaning between an artwork and an audience.

In Brainal Pipes Confusion Cave, the artists expand upon a series of works developed in Germany between 2008 and 2012, which stage obtuse metaphors through banners and commercial signage material. Previous works have sought to communicate distinctly but indirectly to viewers; heightening the readability of art as well as its resistance to hermeneutical closure. Brainal Pipes Confusion Cave sees the artists employing commercial banners to invoke the exhibition space as a type of cave, and suggests a mode of analytical engagement that is incomplete or has been abandoned.

A Wilkins Hill installation is often conceived around a central theme that the artists then discard, leaving traces of logic in the work but rarely producing coherence. This exhibition has been specially developed for the Metro Arts space, in keeping with the artists’ emphasis on the temporal and spatial dynamics that are at play in the interpretive process.

The recording also reflects a focus on creative practice, in particular the collaborative interactions that occur spontaneously within ensemble performances. This practice-led research serves to illustrate creativity within fundamental human interactions, such as collective brainstorming, real-time interactions of productive studio/rehearsal environments, online national compositional collaborations and international collaborations related to engineering mixing and mastering.

The research interrogates differing ways in which collaboration takes place and molds the recording and production of a work. These collaborations, in effect a group of case studies, range from dyadic interactions through to work involving up to nine participants, from partly improvised pieces to entirely notated work.

Mandarin Skyline contributes to the body of contemporary music with a high quality recording of original compositions and several collaborations with leading composers. This has established new benchmarks for the discipline through creative strategies for collaborative composing, improvisation, impromptu interplay and interconnection within live musical performance.

This research is significant because it practically demonstrates innovative methods of researching creative practice and collaboration in contemporary composition, and directly informs my current research. It serves to augment the ongoing research in practice–led–research and its value is attested via invitations to perform these works at leading venues and festivals.

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Leigh CarriageArchie Moore in conversation with Wes Hillhttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1395
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1395Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:18:29 PDTWes HillAssociates: an interview with Damiano Bertolihttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1394
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1394Sun, 15 Mar 2015 18:10:39 PDTWes HillIn focus: Raafat Ishakhttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1392
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1392Sun, 15 Mar 2015 17:38:17 PDTWes Hill19th Biennale of Sydneyhttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1393
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1393Sun, 15 Mar 2015 17:25:43 PDTWes HillIn focus: Raafat Ishakhttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1391
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1391Sun, 15 Mar 2015 16:56:57 PDTWes HillThe outmoded in contemporary digital culturehttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1390
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1390Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:47:32 PDTWes HillThe DIY learning revolution in musichttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1389
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1389Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:35:14 PDTMichael HannanMaintaining the integrity of Indigenous knowledge: sharing Metis knowing through mixed methodshttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1388
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1388Wed, 04 Mar 2015 21:58:52 PST
Working collaboratively with Indigenous populations necessitates a focus on partnerships at the core of sharing, implementing and disseminating Indigenous knowledge. The Tri-Council Policy Statement (CIHR, 2010) notes that respectful, reciprocal and ethical research standards must be applied to research with Indigenous communities. Métis collaborators identified that relationships must be regarded as the central focus of sharing Metis knowledge. Utilizing an investigation on the health benefits of participating in cultural activities, specifically harvesting, we demonstrate how applying mixed methods meets and informs these research standards and creates a unique, participatory Indigenous research method relevant for Métis people. Building from these research standards, this collaboration developed a method of investigation that shares Indigenous knowledge of population health. This method promotes a sustainable research relationship, moving beyond fragmented research projects and making relational connections between people, data sources and findings.
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Peter Hutchinson et al.De-colonizing research practice: indigenous methodologies, Aboriginal methods, and knowledge/knowinghttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1387
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1387Wed, 04 Mar 2015 21:18:36 PSTMike Evans et al.Relocating a sense of place using the participatory Geoweb: the historical document database of the Métis nation of British Columbiahttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1386
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1386Wed, 04 Mar 2015 20:16:12 PST
The interactive capability and ease of use of Geoweb technologies suggest great potential for Aboriginal communities to store, manage, and communicate place-related knowledge. For the Métis, who have a long history of dispossession and dispersion in Canada, the Geoweb offers an opportunity in realizing the desire to articulate a coherent sense of place for their people. This paper reports on a community-based research project involving the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Métis Nation of British Columbia (MNBC) – the political body representing the Métis people in BC. The project includes the creation of a Geoweb tool specifically designed to facilitate the (self) articulation of a Métis community in contemporary BC. It examines how Geoweb technologies have been used to create a participatory, crowd-sourced Historical Document Database (HDD) that takes meaning through the interface of a map. The paper further explores how the data contributed by members of the Métis community have been used to capture, communicate, and represent community memories in the dispersed membership. It concludes by examining challenges that have emerged related to platform stability and institutional relations related to the ongoing sustainability of the HDD.
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Jon M. Corbett et al.Ensuring food security in the small islands of Maluku: a community genebank approachhttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1385
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1385Wed, 04 Mar 2015 19:47:18 PST
As a province composed of hundreds of small islands, Maluku is highly susceptible to decreasing biodiversity of plant resources for agriculture. Pressures from pests and disease infestations, difficulty of seed storage, market demands for specific cultivars, and the introduction of new superior varieties are decreasing crop and plant genetic diversity and will impact the food security in the islands. The establishment of community genebanks is proposed to ensure the continuing existence of plant genetic resources and thus the food security of the islands of Maluku Province. The development of facilities and training of personnel to support the survey, collection, and conservation of materials is required, in part to facilitate their cycling of the crop/plant materials to farmers in need. Also required is the study of role and the problems faced by farmers in order to propose supports for bio-diversity that maybe sociological as well as technological.
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Semuel Leunufna et al.They think you're lying about your need: the impact of appearance on Aboriginal health and social service accesshttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1384
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1384Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:46:18 PSTMike Evans et al.Ensuring food security in the small islands of Maluku: a community genebank approachhttp://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1383
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/sass_pubs/1383Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:46:11 PST
As a province composed of hundreds of small islands, Maluku is highly susceptible to decreasing biodiversity of plant resources for agriculture. Pressures from pests and disease infestations, difficulty of seed storage, market demands for specific cultivars, and the introduction of new superior varieties are decreasing crop and plant genetic diversity and will impact the food security in the islands. The establishment of community genebanks is proposed to ensure the continuing existence of plant genetic resources and thus the food security of the islands of Maluku Province. The development of facilities and training of personnel to support the survey, collection, and conservation of materials is required, in part to facilitate their cycling of the crop/plant materials to farmers in need. Also required is the study of role and the problems faced by farmers in order to propose supports for bio-diversity that maybe sociological as well as technological.
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